Check the man page for apt-get(8) instead
Hmm, yeah, that does document the --fix-broken
flag.
Is there any logic to it? Like, do e.g. all apt install
commands correspond to apt-get install
and e.g. all apt search
commands to apt-cache search
and one can assume those to understand the same flags with the same usage?
I guess, I could always just try to figure out where the given flag is defined and then use apt-get
, apt-cache
etc. directly, just to be sure that the usage is as documented...
In the past there were mutliple tools: apt-cache (searching packages), apt-get (managing packages), apt-file (searching for files belonging to packages), apt-key (managing repository keys)...
A few years ago some developers created apt to combine these multiple tools into the single program called apt. Both tools (the old apt-... and the new apt) use dpkg in the backend to install and remove packages. Looks like apt hasn't done its documentation homework.
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